Mount error

[Michael Hipp]

What does fstab say?
What mount command are you using?
Any chance this disk is bad?
Try running fsck on it.

Michael

Dirk Moolman wrote:
> I am trying to create a new filesystem in Linux, but instead of doing it
> through yast, I did it manually this time.
> 
> I used fdisk, to create a new partition (/dev/sdb1).  I then used
> mkfs.ext3, to create a filesystem on it, and then added the device to
> the /etc/fstab file.
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> When I try to mount the filesystem, I get the error:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>        or too many mounted file systems
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> What am I doing wrong here ?
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> Dirk Moolman
> Database and Unix Administrator
> Agility Technologies (HealthCorp)
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